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Title of collection: Pettigrew Family Papers (#592), Southern Historical
Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title of document: Letter from Charles L. Pettigrew to Ebenezer
Pettigrew, January 22, 1834

Author: Charles L Pettigrew

Description: 2 pages, 3 page images

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Call number 592 (Southern Historical Collection,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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I received your letter containing a draft for $150, and now write
you a receipt on the 12th of this month, the letter came
at the very right time for on day, the session began about 9 Oclock I
received your letter by mail. It would be useless now to express my
gratitude to you for this single act of kindness for you have put your
children under so great obligations that they can never be too grateful and
ought never to be able to convey to you what they feel. While I remained
home last spring I heard you frequently express a wish to get a mare like
your young mare. The is one on Chapel Hill which I think would be just such an one
as you want, she is a mare of blood and is an excellent saddle-horse the
same colour as your mare, and I think they would make an excellent match,
she is spoken very highly of by all who know her, and is owned by my
landlady Mrs Nunn, who wishes to sell her, she asks a hundred and 90
dollars, I told her perhaps you would take her, aknowing that you wanted
such an one, and therefore I would write to you, and known whether you would
buy her or not If you conclude to buy her you can remit a draft and I can
ride her down next commencement. please write we [unrecovered]
immediately whether you will take her, or not. The business of the session
has again commenced and I am in a very neat and warm room without a

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room-mate, nor do I intend to take a room-mate
because good ones are so hard to find; I had one last session, I was
compelled to take him, his brother wrote to me to take him in my room and
there by he would be under some restraint. His brother had just graduated,
and had left me his room one of the best rooms and some say the best in
college and therefore I felt myself under some sort of obliation to him, for
the first two months he made no noise studied hard and behaved himself well
and properly and I liked him very much, the affection was reciprocated, but
after a while he got a fiddle and of course got among the fiddlers in
college idle and worthless fellows, then he began somewhat to absent himself
from his room and finally he went and staid with one altogether although his
trunk was in my room, so we parted and and very seldom see each other, after
he left me he began to drink considerably, and to have wines and brandy
continually, and boy of about 15, I am afraid he will not do much good in
this world. I am in very good health and prepared to study hard. Please
answer this letter immediately